NYTT: Norske i britisk fotball

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Ole Gunnar Solskjær har gjort alt rett hittil i karrieren sin, liten grunn til å tro at han snubler nå. Han blir nok å se i en eller annen rolle i United framover. Jeg tror dog ikke at han har manager-gener, til det er han rett og slett for snill og grei.
Føler for å banne litt i kirka også,- Alex Ferguson har en stor del av æren for Solskjærs eventyrlige karriere i United. Han har forvaltet talentet på en måte det virkelig står respekt av, og som også Norge har nytt godt av det siste tiåret.

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Det er bare å takke OGS for det han har gjort for det norske landslaget. Lykke til videre.

Change is the constant that cannot be changed.

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Herregud mann... Skulle tro at denne nyheten er større enn om det skulle bryte ut 3 verdenskrig... VG.... for en latterlig avis...

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Forsida av VG når 3. verdenskrig bryter ut:

"Solskjær stoppet av russerne på vei til hytta!"

Når det er sagt er det en stor fotballspiller og idrettsmann som nå gir seg. RESSPEKT, mann! RESSPEKT!

Trenge vel for fakerten  ikkje ha nåken signatur heller eg, vel! []

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Daily Mail:

Reds enter Pedersen chase
Liverpool have been linked with a move for Blackburn winger Morten Gamst Pedersen, who is reportedly being chased by Tottenham.
Bayern Munich and Arsenal are also said to be keen on the Norway international, who operates on the left side of midfield.
Rovers boss Mark Hughes is not keen to sell one of the best players on the Ewood Park books, however, and a fee in excess of £11m would have to be paid to lure him away from Blackburn.

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Rangers are set to fight it out with Tromso for Norwegian wonderkid Thomas Kind Bendiksen.  (Daily Record)

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Ferguson: Solskjaer will coach Man Utd strikers
Ole Gunnar Solskjaer is set to become strikers coach at Manchester United.
Solskjaer, who announced his retirement earlier this week, has been recruited as forwards coach by manager Sir Alex Ferguson and has already started work.
After just two goals in United's opening four league games, Fergie said: "It was interesting, because as soon as I told Ole I wanted him to help us with coaching, in particular with the strikers, he said 'It's okay, I've got all the DVDs'.
"He'd got our sports science department to get him all the DVDs of all the strikers - Carlos Tevez, Wayne Rooney, Paul Scholes, all of them. So right away he was into it, which is fantastic."
Fergie admitted Solskjaer's decision to retire had not come as a surprise. The Norway striker had to concede defeat in his four-year battle against a knee injury.
"It had become a bit inevitable, watching him try to come back from his latest operation," said Fergie. "He realised he had given everything he could.
"Ole always understood a coach's job in terms of the difficulty of picking a team. He always understood why I sometimes left him on the bench. I never needed to explain why.
"When we played Spurs on Sunday, I told Chris Eagles and Dong Fangzhou, two of our young subs, to watch the game and I'd rap their knuckles if I caught them talking.
"They watched the game, concentrated on everything that happened, which is what Ole used to do. That's the legacy he's left us."

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Havard Nordtveit Named New Reserves Skipper After Simpson Joins Millwall On Loan.

The Norway Center back signed for Arsenal this summer for £2.5 million from FK Haugesund.

http://arsenalreserves.wordpress.com/2007/08/31/havard-nordtveit-named-new-reserves-captain/

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Solskjær hyllet med «Guard of Honour»
Ole Gunnar Solskjær ble hedret på en av de mest ærefulle måtene i engelsk fotball, like før kampstart mellom Manchester United og Sunderland lørdag.

Mandag kveld annonserte Ole Gunnar Solskjær at han skulle legge opp. Det ble på hederlig vis markert lørdag ettermiddag. Da lagenes spillere kom ut på gresset på Old Trafford, stilte de seg opp på to rekker. En dresskledd Ole Gunnar Solskjær kom ut fra spillertunnelen, gikk ut på gresset mellom de oppstilte spillerne, og tok imot stående applaus fra et fullsatt Old Trafford. Den samme typen hyllest brukes stort sett bare overfor serievinnere i England.
Det er noe man svært sjelden ser at blir gjort med enkeltspilere.
Til stående applaus gikk den beskjedne nordmannen en liten æresrunde på gresset. Han satte så kursen mot sidelinjen der han helt tydelig skulle ta en runde foran fansen, men ble så stoppet.
Sunderland-manager og tidligere United-kaptein Roy Keane kom ned fra lagbenken, og ga Solskjær noen varme ord, før han fikk fortsette ut mot fansen.

Kneproblemer
Solskjær avsluttet sin fantastiske karriere mandag kveld, etter en rekke operasjoner i kneet. Etter 126 mål for United, deriblant scoringen som avgjorde Champions League-finalen i 1999, har nordmannen fått en legendestatus på Old Trafford.
Og tydeligere kan det ikke bli, etter hyllesten som definitivt tilhører sjeldenhetene i en av verdens mest populære klubber.

VG

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Solskjaer may replace Sir Alex Ferguson
This afternoon at Old Trafford we are to witness the first of the annual auditions for succession of the dug-out. It used to happen every time Bryan Robson or Steve Bruce came to town: the young protege head to head with the old master, a 90-minute interview for the post of the next boss of Manchester United. Right now, in the opinion of many a pundit, Mark Hughes sits in pole position in this most virtual of races, the man best placed to fill the managerial boots of Sir Alex Ferguson, when - if - he ever decides to hang them up.
But the appearance this tea-time of Sunderland manager Roy Keane pacing the opposition technical area, his brow furrowed and his stare laser-like, will encourage many an application to be presented on his behalf. If jobs were allocated on a popular vote from the stands, there is no question about the outcome: Keane would stroll it. His legend at United will be confirmed this afternoon by the rare sound of home and away fans eulogising the same name in unison as "Keano" echoes from every corner of the ground. The widespread assumption among United followers, too, is that Keane is the present incumbent's choice, that Ferguson sees so much of himself in the man who he used for a decade as his on-pitch alter ego.
Close observers of Ferguson, though, are not so sure. For them, his eye is drawn to an even more potent candidate, one whose popularity among United followers is almost as significant as Keane's.
The retirement this week of Ole Gunnar Solskjaer came as little surprise. The player had struggled for three years with a knee injury, and his brief reappearance last season looked - even as it was under way - like a poignant coda rather than the opening of a new chapter. However expected, for United fans his departure was hugely significant. The message boards of fan sites filled with memories of his time; the praise was unstinting, his name will ring out from the stands at today's game at a volume to match that of Keane's.
This might seem odd to followers of other clubs: after all, Solskjaer was a player who spent much of his United prime as fourth-choice striker. But he was far more than just a bloke who occasionally came off the bench to score crucial goals. What the fans admired was his character. His devotion to their cause, for instance, was absolute. Even when the club arranged to sell him to Tottenham in the summer of 1998, he refused to go (he still has the fax from club chairman Martin Edwards informing him that terms had been agreed). Only once - briefly, and without recourse to newspaper headlines - did he complain about not being a first-choice player. That was in 2001, when he was made substitute after a run of brilliant performances as a starter. The rest of the time he philosophically accepted his role, worked on it, made it his.
Moreover, when confronted by fans eager to shake the hand of the man who won the Champions League in 1999, invariably he replies that it wasn't him who won it, all he did was apply the finishing touch to a team effort. His dry wit is equally self-effacing, this is what he once said about Teddy Sheringham's equaliser in that game:
"I looked at the clock and said to myself, 'Hey you're going to get another half-hour in a Champions League final, that's going to be a great experience'. Sadly I spoiled it all."
Players like that - modest, level-headed, loyal - just don't come round very often. More's the pity.
There was, however, more to Solskjaer than being a thoroughly decent bloke. On the field he could be spiky, sharp elbowed, but most of all, lynx-eyed in pursuit of a chance. And that did not even come naturally to him. He was a student of finishing, studying its every nuance with written notes of every training session he has ever been involved in. Ferguson famously said of him that no one else watched a game from the bench like he did. Presumably other subs spent their time sulking or texting their WAGs. But Solskjaer watched and watched and watched. And then put what he had seen into practice. Nowhere more so than in the '99 final. From the bench he had spotted a tendency of Sammy Kuffour, the Bayern Munich centre-back, to keep his eye on the ball at corners. So when, in the final moment of injury time, United won a corner, he deliberately positioned himself close to Kuffour, standing right next to him, lulling him into a false sense of security that, so close, he could create no danger. Then, as the defender was momentarily distracted, Solskjaer slipped away unnoticed to the far post, ready to seize on his chance. On such observations are championships won. On such observations are management careers made.
Already Ferguson has encouraged him, during his injury rehabilitation, to coach the youth team players at United. Now that Solskjaer has given up the possibility of a return to playing, he is studying hard the theories of management. Those who say he is too nice to be in charge should study again the way he deliberately set out to destroy Kuffour in Barcelona, exploiting his weakness to leave him beating his fists on the turf. In his own way, Solskjaer was every bit as hard as Roy Keane.

Jim White, Daily Telegraph

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CLAUS LUNDEKVAM is out for a further two months after undergoing an ankle operation.
The Southampton defender, 34, picked up the injury during the Championship play-off semi-final defeat by Derby in May.
Boss George Burley said: “It is a big blow for the club and Claus.”

The Sun

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Solskjær's golden memories

It is a moment that will forever be etched on the minds of Manchester United FC supporters. David Beckham's corner is flicked on by Teddy Sheringham; one metre from goal Ole Gunnar Solskjær stabs out his right leg and deflects the ball into the roof of the net.

Supersub
United had been trailing FC Bayern München 1-0 as the 1999 UEFA Champions League final entered stoppage time. Goals from substitutes Sheringam and Solskjær then turned the match on its head. "The team played so well, we had to score some goals because of the pressure we had the whole game," Solskjær said as United celebrated their first European Champion Clubs' Cup triumph since 1968. "Someone had to do it." It was a typically self-deprecating comment from the Norwegian, whose popularity with the Old Trafford faithful was the result of more than just one goal.

'Determination'
His professionalism, drive and commitment as well as his fierce determination to overcome a debilitating injury won him admirers well beyond United. But as the tributes flowed in following the 34-year-old's retirement on Tuesday, there was one reason in particular he caught manager Sir Alex Ferguson's eye. "Ole is one of the best finishers I have known," Sir Alex said. "We have had a few good natural finishers at the club but he is exceptional."

Great deal
That close-range goal against Bayern, delivered nine minutes after replacing Andrew Cole, seemed to encapsulate the qualities of a player whose â,¬2.3m transfer from Molde FK in 1996 must represent one of the best deals in Sir Alex's two decades at Old Trafford. Solskjær would go on to score 126 goals in 366 appearances for the club, often after coming on as a substitute. Dubbed the 'Baby-faced assassin' for his deadly finishing and youthful looks, the supersub tag stuck for good when he came off the bench to score four times in United's 8-1 rout of Nottingham Forest FC at the City Ground in February 1999.

Injury
Solskjær would have scored many more for United had injury not disrupted his career. His strike in the 5-0 defeat of Panathinaikos FC on 16 September 2003 proved to be his last for almost three years as a knee injury threatened to bring a premature end to his career. After that match Solskjær entered hospital for surgery and embarked on the toughest period of his professional life. After the first operation to repair the articular cartilage in his right knee, Solskjaer returned to action the following February. The knee was still not right, however, and Solskjær duly underwent two further operations in August 2004 and July 2005.

Positive outlook
Even after returning during the 2005/06 season, however, he faced further setbacks, suffering hamstring and thigh strains as well as a fractured cheekbone. Yet Solskjær's positive mindset served him well throughout his long journey back to fitness. And he eventually made it back. Sir Alex described him as the "substitute from hell" in his autobiography but when Solskjær swept the ball into the Celtic FC net on 13 September last year, it must have felt like a small slice of heaven for the Norwegian who had waited two years and 362 days to celebrate a goal at Old Trafford. "If he's on the park for 45 minutes he will get you a goal," Sir Alex said after Solskjær's winner against Celtic. "It was a pure goalscorer's goal. He did what he was best at - using his brain in the penalty area. He knows where the ball's going to land before anyone else. It's a fantastic quality."

'Finishing'
Egil Olsen, who coached him at his international peak for Norway, concurred. "He isn't especially quick, strong or good in the air. What set him aside from others was his finishing. He almost always scored when he got a clear chance and he was always where the ball fell in the area." Solskjær played 67 games for Norway, scoring 23 goals and representing his country at the 1998 FIFA World Cup and UEFA EURO 2000â,,¢, achievements that rank alongside the six Premier League titles, two FA Cups and UEFA Champions League medal he won with United. His swansong appearance was as a substitute in last season's FA Cup final, which United lost 1-0 to Chelsea FC. Solskjær, though, who will remain with United in an ambassadorial role, has no regrets.

Pride
"I would like to thank the manager, the coaching and medical staff and most of all the supporters, who have supported me through my career,” he said. “They have been fantastic and were a real inspiration to me when I was out injured. The support the fans and the staff showed me during that time was the main motivation for me making my comeback. I feel proud to have represented Manchester United for eleven years and have some very special memories." There is a banner that hangs at the Stretford End at Old Trafford that reads '20LEGEND'. United will never forget.


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Pedersen eyes top four spot
Blackburn star predicts bright future
Morten Gamst Pedersen has claimed that Blackburn can finish in the top four.
Blackburn have made an impressive start to the new season and remain unbeaten four games into their Premier League campaign.
Pedersen has been impressed with the way the new players have settled in and hopes Rovers can continue to quietly climb the table.
He believes Mark Hughes has one of the most lethal strike-forces in England at his disposal, and feels a UEFA Champions League place is up for grabs if key players steer clear of injury.
"The big clubs can get the headlines then we can sneak up from behind," the Norwegian winger told Dagbladet.no.

New players
"We had a good team last year and we have kind of got some new players, considering who's back from injury, for example Robbie Savage and Ryan Nelsen.
"And we have Benni McCarthy and Roque Santa Cruz who are fun to play with.
"I don't think many Premier League teams have a better strike-force than we do at the moment.
"They work hard and score goals, and we do have Jason Roberts as a back-up."

SkySports

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Lundekvam hopeful on recovery
Saints captain frustrated by latest setback

Southampton defender Claus Lundekvam has spoken of his devastation at having to go back under the knife, but says he hopes to recover completely in six to eight weeks.
The former Norway international has not played this season due to a knee injury and suffered a further setback when he returned to training last week.
But he remains optimistic that surgery will finally put an end to his injury woes.
"It's devastating to need an op, but hopefully this will resolve the problem," he said.
"It's dragged on a long time and been very frustrating. In the end, this was the only option.
"I had a couple of injections, which helped for a short time, but when I tried to train last week it was back to square one.
"I knew right away I would have to have surgery, but they won't know exactly what the problem is until they get in there.
"I'm hoping it's just a small piece of floating bone, which can just be cleaned out, and then I should be back in six to eight weeks."

SkySports

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Lundekvam faces six-month lay-off  

Southampton captain Claus Lundekvam is set to be sidelined until at least the end of February after having surgery to reconstruct an ankle tendon.
The Norwegian defender, 34, suffered the ligament injury in the final league game of last season against Southend and has not featured in this campaign.
He returned during pre-season but has since been troubled by the problem.
Southampton manager George Burley told the club website: "It is a major blow, losing Claus for so long."
Lundekvam tried injections and rest as part of his treatment but it failed to cure the problem

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Wenger - Nordtveit is so mature for his age
Arsène Wenger has hailed Havard Nordtveit as one of the most mature young players he has ever seen.
Arsenal beat a number of clubs to land the 17-year-old centre back from Norwegian side Haugesund in July. The Under-19 international has impressed in both his Reserve League appearances so far and, significantly, has been handed the captain’s armband.
Wenger is aware that Nordtveit is not the ‘finished article’ but in certain areas he is well ahead of schedule.
“What I liked in this boy is his intelligence and his mental strength,” said the manager earlier this season. “He is very mature. In fact I have rarely seen a boy of his age so mature.
“Physically we need to get him up to the Premiership level, at the moment he is a bit behind. But technically and tactically he is already there. He is an intelligent boy with good vision. He has a good pass out from the back and he is strong too.
“I hope that he can develop well.”

http://www.arsenal.com/article.asp?thisNav=news&article=481339&lid=NewsHeadline&Title=Wenger+-+Havard+Nordtveit+is+so+mature+for+his+age

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Claus down but not out
Saints defender determined to fight back from injury

Claus Lundekvam has revealed he is depressed by the news of his long injury lay-off but is determined to bounce back.
The Southampton defender recently discovered he will be out for six months following surgery to reconstruct his ankle tendon.
At 34 years of age, a six-month spell on the sidelines could be enough to end his career, but Lundekvam is eager to make a full recovery.
"I am positive I can make it back and play again," he told Southampton's official website. "But it will mean a long time out of action.
"It would be great to get back just in time to lift the Championship trophy and claim all the credit.
"But that is a long way off and right now I am very depressed. It is a big personal blow for me. I have been very unlucky with injuries in the past year."

SkySports

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Bolton boss Sammy Lee will fight Newcastle's Sam Allardyce for Norwegian defender Brede Hangeland. (Daily Mirror)
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Sunderland failed with Hangeland bid
Sunderland made a late bid for Norway international defender Brede Hangeland before the market closed last month, it has been revealed.
The Journal says Scandinavian sources have revealed Sunderland failed in an attempt to sign Norwegian international Brede Hangeland prior to last month's transfer deadline. The FC Copenhagen defender also attracted interest from Newcastle.

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Villa boss O'Neill: Carew needs goal
Aston Villa boss Martin O'Neill admits John Carew needs a goal.
"John has got a little bit of a groin problem and we were going to play him for as long as we could," O'Neill said.
"Most strikers thrive on goals and once he gets off the mark for us I think he'll be fine.
"The last thing I like to hear is that he is doing great for Norway, I'm the club manager for Aston Villa and I'd like him to do brilliantly for us."

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Injury blow for United's Kalvenes
Dundee United's Christian Kalvenes faces up to four weeks on the sidelines after sustaining a calf injury in Sunday's 2-0 win over St Mirren.
The 20-year-old Norwegian left-back picked up the knock as he helped United move into third place in the SPL.
United manager Craig Levein said:"We are assessing how bad it is but if it's a tear he'll be out for a few weeks.
"That would be a big blow to him and to us because I think he's been superb since the start of the season."

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Injury blow for United's Kalvenes
Dundee United's Christian Kalvenes faces up to four weeks on the sidelines after sustaining a calf injury in Sunday's 2-0 win over St Mirren.
The 20-year-old Norwegian left-back picked up the knock as he helped United move into third place in the SPL.
United manager Craig Levein said:"We are assessing how bad it is but if it's a tear he'll be out for a few weeks.
"That would be a big blow to him and to us because I think he's been superb since the start of the season."

Har skottane mottatt feil dåpsattest? Kalven må ha vore ekstremt ung då han spelte for blant anna Brann og Sogndal!!!

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Solskjaer takes first Man Utd coaching job
Manchester United hero Ole Gunnar Solskjaer took on his first coaching job yesterday as he led the club's reserve-team in a friendly against Sporting Lisbon.
The 34-year-old has not yet been given an official job title, but he is to work closely with technical skills development coach Rene Meulensteen, with particular emphasis on coaching strikers throughout the club's ranks.
United boss Sir Alex Ferguson told ManUtd.com: "This is an ideal trip for Ole to come along and get involved with the coaching side of the game."
Ole led the warm up and took charge of a strong reserves team including Tom Heaton, Dong Fangzhuo, Lee Martin, and Darron Gibson against a Sporting Lisbon team made up of first- and second-year Academy scholars.

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Injury blow for United's Kalvenes
The 20-year-old Norwegian left-back ...

Har skottane mottatt feil dåpsattest? Kalven må ha vore ekstremt ung då han spelte for blant anna Brann og Sogndal!!!

Født i 77, så her har Sky bommet med 10 år.
http://www.dundeeunitedfc.co.uk/index.asp?tm=17&ID=282

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Carew blames Norway duty on Villa form

John Carew blames his time away with Norway on Sunday's flat performance for Aston Villa at Manchester City.
He told Villa's website: "I felt tired and stiff after all the matches recently. I got it out of the system in the first 20 minutes, but it was no surprise that I was substituted in the second half.
"I shall now go home and rest. Fortunately, we don't have our next match until Sunday and then I expect to be fresh again."
Martin O'Neill has backed Carew to recapture the form that made him such a massive Villa Park hit over the second half of last season.
The Villa boss said: "John has got a little bit of a groin problem and we were going to play him for as long as we could. Most strikers thrive on goals and once he gets off the mark for us I think he'll be fine.
"The last thing I like to hear is that he is doing great for Norway, I'm the club manager for Aston Villa and I'd like him to do brilliantly for us."

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John Carew scoret og ble skadet da Aston Villa vant 2-0 over Everton i Premier League.

Nordmannen satte inn 1-0 med et skudd med venstrebeinet fra ti meter etter bare 13 minutters spill på Villa Park. Det var Carews første mål denne Premier League-sesongen.

Carew ble byttet ut etter 53 minutter med en kneskade. Den tidligere Vålerenga- og Rosenborg-spilleren vil nå gjennomgå en legeundersøkelse på mandag.

- Det ser ikke bra ut, og det er veldig synd for John, sier manager Martin O'Neill.

- John var veldig sterk, og etter at han fikk målet var han enda sterkere. Vi får bare håpe at han ikke er ute alt for lenge.

Overfor VG bekrefter Carew at han frykter en alvorlig leddbåndskade:

- Man vil alltid frykte at det er røket hvis man er skadet på denne måten, medgir han.

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Injured Carew faces six weeks out  
Aston Villa manager Martin O'Neill has confirmed that Norwegian striker John Carew will be out for up to six weeks after sustaining knee ligament damage.
Carew, 28, scored the opener in Villa's 2-0 win over Everton on Sunday but was forced off after 53 minutes.
O'Neill told Villa's website: "We're looking at four to six weeks out - it's a blow because he is a key player.
"We play Tottenham and West Ham before an international fortnight so from that standpoint he could have missed more."

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Carew's goal was his first of the season for Villa and O'Neill believes it was just reward for the work the Norway international does for the team.
"You can do an awful lot of work as a centre-forward outside the penalty area, but you're there to get goals and he's off the mark now.
"Suddenly, all that good work he has done for us, that seemingly has gone unnoticed, he'll start to think now that there is a bit of justice."

BBC

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Håvard Nordtveit var med i troppen til Arsenal foran dagens Ligacup-kamp, men en skade gjør at han likevel ikke får sin debut.

http://www.h-avis.no/article/20070925/SPORT/709250002/1072/AKTUELT

- Leif Olav
Foreningen mot signaturhets

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Henning's prize pair
TWO future managers of Manchester United will be battling it out as Mark Hughes and Roy Keane go head-to-head at the Stadium of Light.
That is the view of their former team-mate Henning Berg, who feels the Blackburn and Sunderland bosses are near the top of the list to succeed Alex Ferguson.
Lyn Oslo chief Berg had three years with Keane at United and was then at Ewood Park as Sparky brought the curtain down on his playing days.
And the centre-back â€" who collected a Champions League winner’s medal and three Premiership titles in his illustrious career â€" believes either could take charge at Old Trafford.
He said: “I can understand why people are talking about them being future managers of Man United and, for me, they would both be top candidates.
“If the United job became available there would be applicants from all over the world because it’s huge.
“But I’m sure the board at Old Trafford would love to be able to give it to one of their own â€" someone with strong United connections who had proved themselves elsewhere.
“These two were massive heroes with United’s fans, so they would be given every chance to get it right.”
Berg, who has been in charge at Lyn for more than two years, believes Hughes would currently have a slight edge over his rival Keano.
The Norwegian added: “I suppose if Sir Alex left tomorrow Sparky might be just ahead because of the experience he’s had with Wales and Blackburn.
“But that’s only one part of being a top boss. Some people just naturally take to it and you can’t argue with what Roy has done so far.
“If either of them took over, they’d instantly have the respect of the United dressing room because of what they achieved as players.
“But respect for that reason alone doesn’t last long â€" only about three months in my experience!”

The Sun

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Aston Villa are set to tempt Liverpool with a fresh January bid for John Arne Riise.  (News of the World)

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Aston Villa are set to tempt Liverpool with a fresh January bid for John Arne Riise.  (News of the World)

Villa, Newcastle move for Liverpool's Riise
Aston Villa are planning a bid for Liverpool fullback John Arne Riise.
The News of the World says Villa boss Martin O'Neill is ready to move for the Norway international in January.
Newcastle United are also keen.